The merchants ate us & many observations (2-2)

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Some feel, for reasons that are not hidden from the intelligent and psychiatrists that the merchant class is nothing but a corrupt class and they must be fought, because they manipulate the tenders, plunder farms, stores and chalets. This is what some believe.

This article is not for those who are sick of heart but for those who are willing to hear the points of view:

1. There is no doubt that the percentage of the corrupt and greedy among the merchants is big.

2. There is no country, whether the size of a village or big as an empire in which everyone owns everything. The world is not taken by wishful thinking or by lamenting over the theft of the country by merchants, but by work.

I worked for eight whole years in the morning, studied in the evening and was a small merchant in between work and study and built myself without stealing or inheriting, at a time when most of my friends chose to enjoy their time.

3. In the mid-fifties of the last century, my grandfather and his eldest son (my father) switched from the banking profession to the food trade, and soon their activity grew and they needed a store, so a friend advised them to check with the Ministry of Commerce to obtain land in Shuwaikh, but the father refused the offer because Shuwaikh was far from the market, and building a warehouse, hiring a guard and a transport vehicle cost much, therefore he was not prepared for all that. So the store was taken by another trader and benefited from it, so does my father have the right to be envious of the trader who took the store and describe him as greedy, for example?

4. In the mid-seventies, I bought from ‘Bin Shaaban’ Al-Azmi the right to usufruct part of an empty land on the sea in the Bneider area at a low price. I advised my friends to buy the rest of the land, but they laughed at the idea, and preferred the Persol glasses, the Parker pen, the luxury car, and travel to spend their savings on a futile project.

I built a small chalet on the land, and I sold it after a few years for a big profit, and I repeated the same process for more than five times, and my companions are still where they were, so do they have the right to describe me as greedy?

5. There is an industrial project offered for sale at a cost of one and a half million dinars, with approval from the Public Authority Industry to allocate an industrial land with an area of 50,000 square meters.

Who will take the risk and buy the factory in these difficult testing conditions the world is witnessing and pump money to run it, or have the experience and have the time and money to take advantage of the huge land that will be allocated to him, spend millions on building it, and wait for many years to reap the fruits of his risk?

Only a few will do that, and you will probably achieve a great profit, but almost everyone will forget the time and effort he spent and the money he risked, and they will devote themselves to writing articles attacking him and describing him as a greedy merchant.

For knowledge, the project is offered for sale to whoever wants it, but few will think about this adventure, and these are the winners, not the ones who sit down and complain about the corruption of merchants.

Merchants are part of this society and it is impossible to eliminate them, and rationalizing their behavior is through fair government systems and a tight tax system!

Finally, if the government had purchased an island and divided it among the number of Kuwaiti families, and made in each section a house, a chalet, a farm and a storehouse, the majority would not accept their share.

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By Ahmad alsarraf

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